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"Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up."

"The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway."

"My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl."

"A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000."

"He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention."

"But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher."

"I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands."

"I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently."

"I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade."
Explore more quotes by George Stigler


"A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens."


"Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price."


"My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director."


"The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly."


"The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist."


"I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University."


"After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958."
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